THE WILD BOAR. 83 
this very period, in Eskdale, is related by Blount in 
_his “ Ancient Tenures” (p. 557, ed. 1815). He says 
that in the fifth year of Henry II. the lord of Ugle- 
barnby, William de Bruce, the lord of Snaynton, 
Ralph de Percy, and a gentleman freeholder named 
~ Allotson, met on the 16th October to hunt the Wild 
Boar in a certain wood called ‘ Hiskdale-side,’ belong- 
ing to the Abbot of the monastery of Whitby, by 
name Sedman. 
“Then the aforesaid gentiemen did meet with 
their hounds and boar-staves in the place aforesaid, 
and there found a great wild boar; and the hounds 
did run him very hard near the chapel and hermitage 
of Eskdale-side, where there was a monk of Whitby 
who was a hermit. The boar, being so hard pursued, 
took in at the chapel door, and there laid him down 
and died immediately. The hermit shut the hounds 
out of the chapel, and kept himself at his meditation 
and prayers, the hounds standing at bay without. 
The gentlemen in the thick of the wood, following 
the cry of the hounds, came to the hermitage, and 
found the hounds round the chapel. Then came the 
gentlemen to the door of the chapel, and called on 
the hermit, who did open the door, and then they got 
forth, and within lay the boar dead, at which the 
gentlemen, in a fury because their hounds were put 
out of their game, ran at the hermit with their boar- 
staves, whereof he (subsequently) died. Then the 
gentlemen, knowing and perceiving that he was in 
peril of death, took sanctuary at Scarborough ; but 
at that time the Abbot, being in great favour with 
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